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Cantharis moesta, paring., 
Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vi., 1892, p. 135. 
luguhris, P6r., loc. cit. iv., 1888, p. 139 (nam. preoc). 
Black, with a moderately broad rufescent patch on each side of the 
vertex of the head behind the eye, outer margin of the elytra with a very 
narrow fringe of grey reaching from the humeral part to about the middle ; 
upper and under sides clothed with an extremely short fuscous black 
pubescence ; palps and antennae black, the latter short, compressed, not 
filiform, intermediate joints slightly longer than wide, joints very briefly 
pubescent ; head finely aciculate and with a faint longitudinal line ; pro- 
thorax longer than broad, attenuate in front for about one-third of the 
length, having a median basal depression and a fine median line disap- 
pearing in the anterior part, the surface is as finely and closely aciculated 
as on the head, and so are the elytra which bear no traces of dorsal costules, 
and are singly broadly rounded at apex. 
Length 9-10 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie) ; Natal (Estcourt ; Van Eeenen's Pass) ; 
Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 
Cantharis rufifrons, Fahr., 
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1870, p. 353. 
Black, clothed with a greyish appressed pubescence which does not 
hide the colour of the background ; the head, with the exception of the 
labrum and epistoma, is brick-red, the antennae which are very long and 
with the joints sub-cylindrical have the four or five basal joints sub- 
rufescent ; vertex with a distinct median line, head aciculate punctate, 
the punctures not very closely set ; prothorax attenuated into a neck 
from about one-fourth of the length, longer than broad, having in the 
centre a hollow median line reaching from apex to base, there is no dis- 
tinct median impression in the base, the surface is covered with round, 
slightly rugose, contiguous punctures ; scutellum pubescent ; elytra elon- 
gated, sub-cylindrical covered with closely set punctures similar to those 
on the prothorax, no traces of longitudinal costules ; under side and legs 
finely aciculate, abdominal segments very densely pubescent ; anterior 
tarsi of male thickly spongy underneath, the basal joint dilated. 
Length 17 mm. ; width 4-| mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls). 
Cantharis jucunda, Pering., 
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 137. 
Similar in shape and sculpture to C. rufifrons and differs only by the 
colour of the pubescence which is very much denser, hides completely the 
